Reel for clotheslines and the like



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' VICTOR G. MOSS, 0F LEWELANID, Gmo, ABSEGOB 'TO THE CHAMPIONREGISTEJECEE- PANY, @F CLEVELAND, Omi?, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

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To all whom z't may concern:

Be it known that I, Vieron G. Moes, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Cleveland, county of Cuyahoga, and State c of Ohio, haveinvented a new and useful improvement in Reels for Clotheslines and thelike, of which the following is a specification, the principle of theinvention bein herein explained and the best mode in whic l havecontemplated applying that principle,

so as to distinguish it from other inventions.

The present improvements relate to a clothesline holder on the order ofa reel or spool where the clothesline or other cable or wire may beconveniently wound and in turn unwound therefrom. The object of theinvention is to provide a simple and compact device of this sort whichwill ermit a line to be thus wound or unwoun without becoming eithertangled or twisted. Another object is to construct such reel so that theparts may be nested together for shipment in much less space than wouldbe reiuired were the devices assembled, the assem ly of the parts,however, being a very simple matter requiring no special proof.

To the accomplishment of the foregoing and related ends, the invention,then, consists of the means hereinafter fully described 3o andparticularly pointed out in the claims,

the annexed drawing and the following description setting forth indetail certain mechanism embodyin the invention, such disclosed meansconstituting, however, but

one of various mechanical forms in which the principle of the inventionmay be used.

In said annexed drawing Fig. 1 is a perspective view of my improved reelor holder; Fig. 2 is a central axial section thereof; Fig. 3 illustratesthe sembled in spaced-apart relation.

As clearly shown in the aforesaid drawing, my improved holder consistsin effect of two similar disks 1, each provided with a peripheraloutwardly flaring flan e 2, the

turned over to form a bead 3. In assembling the device, such two disksare secured together with the flanges thereof extending in oppositedirections (see Fig. 2), as the result of which a reel or spool having aVl y being shaped space 4 for the reception of the line is o viouslprovided.

The dis s are thus secured together by means of bolts 5 that at the sametime carry handles 6. Said bolts pass through diametrically opposedholes 7 in the disks and the portions thereof that carry the handles 6extend inopposite directions so that the user may readil graspone handlein each hand. Nuts 8 an 9 on the inner threaded ends of the bolts serveto secure the same in such holes 7 in the disks, at the saine timeclamping the latter firmly together and by proper adjustment of saidbolt 8 leaving the handles 6 freely rotatable on the projecting portionsof the bolts.

For` the purpose of shipment and storage, the disks may e stacked ornested, as shown in Fig. 3, with the flanges 2 all dis osed in lthe samedirection. It will thus seen that a large number of reels or holderswill occupy a relativelysmall space compared with the space that wouldbe required were they packed in assembled condition.

lf desired, in order to increase the capacity of the reel, the disks maybe assembled in spaced-apart relation as shown in Fig. 4, instead ofbeing clamped with their opposed faces directly in contact with eachother. This merely involves lengthening the bolts 10, that correspondwith bolts 5, and the insertion of spacing means between suchdisk-faces. Such spacing means conveniently take the form `of sleeves orferrules 11 surrounding said bolts 10, two or more additional shorterbolts 12 with similar ferrules being spaced equidistantly about theperiphery of the disks.

Other modes of a plying the principle of my invention may e employedinstead of the one explained. change being made as re gards themechanism herein disclosed, rovided the means stated by any of the fo0W- ing claims or the equivalent of such stated means be employed.

l therefore particularly point out and distinctly claim as myinvention 1. In a device of the character described, the combination oftwo similar disks, each provided with a eripheral outwardly flaringflange, said disks each having two diametrically opposed holes and beingplaced together with corresponding holes in register and with the angesthereof extending in opposite directions; bolts passing through 1vl@such registering holes end clamping seid disks together, seid boltsextending in opposite directions from seid disks end handles rotativelyIrounted on smid bolts, respectively. l

2. ln a device of the character described,

Y ing Harige, said ametrically opposed holes and belngpleeed.

the combination of two similar disks, each provided with e eriphereloutwardly Harisks each having two ditogether with corresponding holes inregister and with the denges thereof:l extending in opposite directions;bolts )passing through meeneesuch registering holes, seid boltsextending in opposite directions .from said disks; two

earchA handle being the corresponding the adjacent side of said vierone. Moss-f and handles rotative'ly mounted in this y11th day of December,

